Artoria gloriosa (Rainbow, 1920)

Female Artoria gloriosa [as illustrated in Rainbow (1920b)]. Cephalothorax length 4 mm.

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Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow, 1920b: 261-262, plate 30 Figs 94-95.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- Roewer, 1955c: 272.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- Bonnet, 1957: 2643.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- McKay, 1973: 379.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- McKay, 1979c: 238-240, Figs 1F-K.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- McKay, 1985b: 77.
Lycosa gloriosa Rainbow.- Platnick, 1989: 371.
Artoria gloriosa (Rainbow).- Framenau, 2005a: 279-283, figs 7a-f, 8.

Types

Holotype:

• Female, Lord Howe Island [31°31'S, 159°04'E, New South Wales], A.M. Lea, December 19915 – January 1916 (South Australian Museum, SAM NN038) (pers. observation).

Identification

Female (F, G, H, K) and male pedipalp (I, J, expanded) of Lycosa gloriosa [as illustrated in McKay (1979c)]. Cephalothorax length females 3.4 -6.2 mm, male 3.1 mm.

Distribution

Known from Lord Howe Island only (New South Wales) (McKay, 1979c).

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